ROADBLOCKED Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

roadblocked

verb

past tense of roadblock

as in blocked

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Now a district judge has blocked the regulation adopted by the Postal Service to implement the order.

— Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Deion Sanders and the Buffs stunned Georgia Tech in Thursday night's opener, 14-13, thanks to a late touchdown and blocked field goal in the waning seconds.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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Sacramento police said investigators were working to detain a suspect barricaded inside a residence with a possible firearm on Tuesday night.

— Richard Ramos, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
As a woman inside walked out to agents in the garage, prosecutors say Dowen barricaded himself upstairs and weighed his options.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026

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Magyar's predecessor, Viktor Orbán, was an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who repeatedly delayed or blocked European Union sanctions on Russia and pursued energy deals with Russia.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Jennings completed 26 of 36 passes for a career-best 430 yards and three touchdowns as SMU (1-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) outlasted the Seminoles in a game that was delayed nearly two hours due to a power outage at Doak Campbell Stadium.

— Associated Pess, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026

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Iran’s proxies in the region, the Houthis, have since blockaded another strait – the Bab-al-Mandeb – challenging Saudi Arabia’s ability to export oil through that alternate route.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
During the early nineteen-eighties, when Paul Volcker, the chair of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates to twenty per cent in the face of rampant inflation, furious farmers blockaded the Fed’s headquarters with their tractors.

— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

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Dasha Ramírez, now 9, still remembers the day armed, uniformed Border Patrol agents arrested her family, her mother, Noemi Chavez, told the Tribune.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Federal authorities have arrested and sought to deport pro-Palestinian activists, actions that judges have deemed a First Amendment violation.

— BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

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Meanwhile, France’s economy has been mired in low economic growth in recent years, while the AI boom is turbocharging America’s GDP.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
His forces are failing to make significant headway on the ground in Ukraine, and the United States is mired in its own draining stalemate with Iran.

— Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026

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West Ham also retained club captain Jarrod Bowen, Taty Castellanos and Konstantinos Mavropanos, while Arne Engels, Manor Solomon, Joel Piroe and Divine Mukasa were their headline summer additions.

— Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Impressively, Fever retained the Dax's single-channel front ABS system by machining custom wheel-speed sensor discs and fabricating mounts for both the ABS module and the factory tip-over sensor.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026

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The sow bounded away a few feet and then glanced back at him.

— Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
Although all of the solar system’s planets with atmospheres have wave-spawning disturbances, only Saturn churns them out looking like polygons, geometric shapes bounded by straight lines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

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